Ask YC: Notable People On YC • Hacker News Board

rokhayakebe wrote: post #13

edw519 I do not know who he is outside of HN, but he sure is somebody here and I follow his comments/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519 . May I also add the one and only http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon

Ed's an all around nice guy. We've met both online and in meat space at the last Startup School.

Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

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Post by rokhayakebe » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 9:29 AM UTC

iamelgringo wrote: post #24

rokhayakebe wrote: post #13

edw519 I do not know who he is outside of HN, but he sure is somebody here and I follow his comments/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519 . May I also add the one and only http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon

Ed's an all around nice guy. We've met both online and in meat space at the last Startup School.

So can you confirm if he is PG or not? Just kidding ;)

Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

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Post by iamelgringo » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 10:35 AM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #25

iamelgringo wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ed's an all around nice guy. We've met both online and in meat space at the last Startup School.

So can you confirm if he is PG or not? Just kidding ;)

I was in the room at the same time that PG and Ed were. I think that dcurtis and xichekolas were there chewing the fat with us at the same time.

Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

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Post by whalesalad » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 10:45 AM UTC

Michael Whalen - http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whalesalad

jokes.

Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

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Post by whalesalad » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 10:46 AM UTC

iamelgringo wrote: post #24

rokhayakebe wrote: post #13

edw519 I do not know who he is outside of HN, but he sure is somebody here and I follow his comments/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519 . May I also add the one and only http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon

Ed's an all around nice guy. We've met both online and in meat space at the last Startup School.

Eeeeeez. Meat space just sounds sooo wrong.

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Post by dfranke » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 10:54 AM UTC

iamelgringo wrote: post #26

rokhayakebe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So can you confirm if he is PG or not? Just kidding ;)

I was in the room at the same time that PG and Ed were. I think that dcurtis and xichekolas were there chewing the fat with us at the same time.

And me as well.

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Post by edw519 » Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 11:06 AM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #13

edw519 I do not know who he is outside of HN, but he sure is somebody here and I follow his comments/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519 . May I also add the one and only http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon

In the words of a celebrity I once met, longtime Sports Illustrated writer and Pittsburgh Steelers commentator, Myron Cope,

"Notorious, yes. Famous, not so sure."

Anyone who ever had to maintain my code would probably agree.

(Aside: While I'm at it, a quick Myron Cope story...Myron noticed that Lee Flowers was coming off the disabled list with a high ankle sprain after only 2 weeks when the usual diagnosis was 4 weeks. He asked Coach Cowher why. Coach told him that the first high ankle sprain usually took 4 weeks to heal, but subseqent high ankle sprains only took 2 weeks to heal. This was Lee's second injury. Myron then asked, "Well then, why don't you take the whole team out in February and sprain all their ankles?")